Quote (StayPositive @ Jan 17 2020 09:15am)
But what was the result of getting under that hothead's skin? The game winner, by design, set up by Tkachuk who played him like a fiddle.
The Oilers fanbase and media trying to play this is as some kind of moral win is so stupid. Take the loss. Stay wise to the mind games next game and come to play. And putting two of the DIRTIEST players of the last decade like Neal and Kassian on a soap box as some kind of 'defenders of clean hockey' is just so absurd, what a total lack of self-awareness.
Just because the refs might have missed a charging or roughing call on the first hit doesn't mean it then merits a suspension after the game. Parros made the right call in every way, including with his suspension of Lucic the other week, for the same infraction.
All of that is 100% irrelevant to anything I said.
I’m not making any claims about what Edmonton media is saying.
Fact is refs lost control of game because there is consistency with the rules and ways things are called.